Tried out a different style of drawing, not that happy with result but ok.
[IMG]http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/333/a/6/alienation_by_ducksink-d4hnlp0.png[/IMG]
[url]http://ducksink.deviantart.com/#/d4hnlp0[/url]
i think your style is pretty cool, man
I actually really like that. Nice Job.
Using black to shade colored pictures is not very good idea, it makes shadows look muddy and well, wrong. I have no idea if this will work but try taking it down from black to dark grey and shade different materials with the dark grey having a hint of that materials shadows in it
I have to admit I like it better unpainted myself
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/pCoqU.jpg[/thumb]
I tried however toying around with the color of the outlines
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/gdxZO.jpg[/thumb]
ill try coloring each section with a different outline tint when I get home.
[QUOTE=Ducksink;33520625]I have to admit I like it better unpainted myself
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/pCoqU.jpg[/thumb]
I tried however toying around with the color of the outlines
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/gdxZO.jpg[/thumb]
ill try coloring each section with a different outline tint when I get home.[/QUOTE]
Perspective could use work - always remember that the horizon (you'd have to estimate where the actual horizon is here because it's obscured by the distant mesas) is the line from which you should draw your perspective lines.
The platform he's sitting on is perfectly (or near enough) horizontal, right? From our point of view it's on the same level as the horizon, so it should be near perfect side on view of the platform, not the 'looking down upon it' view we have now.
That's a disgusting explanation, and I'm sorry. I'm too tired to think.
Look at it this way - to the window and look at the window sill (window ledge, whatever). Crouch down so that the window ledge is at the same level as the distant horizon. See how your view of the top edge of the ledge changes as it comes closer to the height of the horizon.
[URL="http://www.explore-drawing-and-painting.com/perspective-drawing.html"][IMG]http://www.explore-drawing-and-painting.com/images/perspective-drawing-002.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
[URL]http://www.explore-drawing-and-painting.com/perspective-drawing.html[/URL]
[QUOTE=3v3ryb0dy;33518799]Using black to shade colored pictures is not very good idea, it makes shadows look muddy and well, wrong. I have no idea if this will work but try taking it down from black to dark grey and shade different materials with the dark grey having a hint of that materials shadows in it[/QUOTE]
Going from black to dark gray's not really going to help, because you're still shading a color picture with black-and-white values, which always looks bad.
@OP - Lighting in a color picture is almost always split into warm (yellow, orange, red) colors and cool (blue, violet, blueish shades of green) colors. If you have a cool light source, like the moon or a fluorescent light or something, you're going to get cool highlights and warm shadows. If you have a warm light source, like the sun, your shadows should look cooler. Unless your light source is perfectly white and everything in the room is some shade of gray, making shadows gray isn't going to work very well.
There's some other stuff I noticed in your drawing so I did kind of a crit on the image:
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3677532/fpredline.jpg[/img]
[editline]4th December 2011[/editline]
Okay I did a little quick job of shading + atmospheric perspective on it. Didn't try to fix the perspective or anything, and my cast shadows are probably pretty inaccurate. But notice how much more impact you can get from a picture by using the full spectrum of contrast and laying down some confident shadows:
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3677532/fpredline2.jpg[/img]
Anyway, keep it up! I really like your concept and staging for this picture, hope to see more in the future :)
Holymoly TH89, that is one of the most helpful things Ive ever read
Thank you! i'll try working on all of those things you mentioned on my next attempts, I doubt that I could see it the way you do right now, though.
Glad it was helpful! I actually thought of a couple more things to say:
-Never be afraid to use reference. As my drawing teacher pointed out, most people can't even draw an accurate picture of their own toilet from memory, and they see that every day. So how would we remember what anything else looks like? I even Googled up some pictures of sunsets before I painted the sun on that drawing. I didn't copy any of them, but it helped to see how broadly the glow from the sun spreads across the sky, for example. If you were redrawing this picture (not saying you need to, but as an example) you could look up reference pictures of rocks and cliffs and deserts. Even if you're trying to do an exaggerated cartoony world, it helps to know how things really look before you start to change them.
And I actually can't remember the other thing. lol
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